GUILTY BUT NO EVIDENCE
A kinema artist, an ex-officer, named | Arthur Smith (23). pleaded guilty at jl London sessions to stealing a dressing- P ease and contents, valued at £142, from £ the Regent Palace Hotel. j Prosecuting counsel: If Smith had | pleaded "not guilty" there was not J one tittle of evidence on which the jury j could have convicted. | Sir Robert Wallace agreed with counsel, and postponed sentence, with a view lo helping friends to find him employment abroad.
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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 16 April 1920, Page 4
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